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G24AS00281: Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with Pacific Northwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit

Closed Closed March 27, 2024 Opportunity G24AS00281 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is open now: Cooperative Agreement for affiliated Partner with Alaska Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (G27AS00066). Status: Closes December 7, 2026 (30 days left). It is in our archive of Geological Survey notices from 2024.

• Award ceiling$52,866
• Award floor$33,981
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. CESU’s are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of the Pacific Northwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection awards averaged $557,251; this notice allows up to $52,866 per award.
• Most of the program's money (84% over five years) went to colleges and universities.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The US Geological Survey is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner to conduct research examining how repeated wildfire reburns influences the pace and pattern of forest recovery in the western Cascades of Oregon, with particular emphasis on vegetation transitions resulting from forest reburns. Historically, in forests of the western Cascades, fire activity has generally ranged from infrequent and severe in the north, to frequent and of mixed severity in the south. This range in fire activity generally reflects a north-south bioclimatic gradient that spans relatively cool-wet to warm-dry conditions. Historically, severe fires were limited by fuel flammability, especially in the cooler, wetter forest region. However, anthropogenic global warming is increasing fuel aridity (i.e., flammability) in these biomass-rich forests, which have sufficient amounts of horizontal and vertical fuel continuity to sustain intense fire spread. In the recent past, post-fire tree recruitment was generally successful over 1-4 decades, but changes in climate are projected to slow forest recovery while simultaneously driving increases in future fire activity in the western Cascades. Critically, the recovery of forests following such events and the effectiveness of management aimed at facilitating such recovery remain uncertain.

Category: Science and Technology and other Research and Development.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, G27AS00066, which is open now.

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